Favourite Plants List

Alpinia

  1. Alpinia Purpurata Jungle King

  2. Alpinia Purpurata Red Ginger

  3. Alpinia Purpurata White Ginger

  4. Alpinia Purpurata Pink Ginger

  5. Alpinia Vittata Variegated

  6. Alpinia Zerumbet "Variegated shell ginger"

  7. Alpinia Luteocarpa

  8. Alpinia Nieuwenhuizii Valeton [Probably]

  9. Alpinia Nieuwenhuizii

  10. Alpinia Mutica [Probably]

  11. Burbidgea Scheizocheila 'Golden Brush'

Heliconia

  1. Heliconia Chartacea x Platystachys 'Temptress'

  2. Heliconia Mariae 'Beef Steak'

  3. Heliconia Rostrata

  4. Heliconia Rostrata cultivator 'Ten Day'

  5. Heliconia Longissima

  6. Heliconia Bihai x Marginata Rauliniana

  7. Heliconia Pendula x Bihai 'Hot Rio Nites' [upright]

  8. Heliconia Bihai ‘Giant Lobster Claw’ [upright]

  9. Heliconia Indica Spectabilis [Small Upright]

  10. Heliconia Psittacorum Golden Torch [upright]

  11. Heliconia Psittacorum Orange - American [Small Upright]

  12. Heliconia Psittacorum St Vincent Red [Small Upright]

  13. Heliconia Psittacorum Lady Di Variegated [Small Upright]

  14. Heliconia Metallica [Upright]

  15. Heliconia Psittacorum x Spathocircinata Guyana [Upright]

  16. Heliconia Psittacorum x Spathocircinata Kean Red [Upright]

  17. Heliconia Psittacourm "Peru White New" [Upright]

  18. Heliconia Psittacourm "Sassy" [Upright]

  19. Heliconia Bourgaeana x Collinsiana "pedro ortiz" Hot Pink [Mixed Upright]

  20. Heliconia Marginata 'Lutea'

  21. Heliconia Longiflora [Upright]

  22. Heliconia Acuminata Ruby [Upright]

  23. Heliconia Latispatha Red Yellow Gyro [Upright]

  24. Heliconia Chartacea Sexy Pink

Canna Lilly Types

  1. America [Smoky Green leaves with Bronze Red edges]

  2. Australia [Very Dark Bronze Leaves]

  3. Variegated yellow green [Probably Tropicanna Gold]

  4. Indica [probably] - green with red edges on leaves

  5. Durban [Red Variegated Gold leaves, Orange blooms]

Marantaceae

  1. Calathea Lutea [Tobacco Plant]

  2. Calathea insignis [Rattlesnake plant]

  3. Calathea Warszewiczil

  4. Maranta arundinacea Variegated Arrowroot

  5. Stromathe Sanguine Tricolour

Palms

  1. Foxtail Palm [Wodyetia bifurcata]. Planted Sept 2014

  2. Red Wax Palm. Planted Sept 2014

  3. Dypsis Lutescens - Yellow Palm. Planted Sept 2014

  4. Rhapis Exselsa Palm. Planted Sept 2014

  5. Veitchia merrillii golden, locally called Golden Palm. Planted May 2017

Zingiber [Beehive Ginger]

  1. Zingiber spectabile 'Giant Honeycomb'

  2. Zingiber spectabilis ‘Early Yellow’

  3. Zingiber spectabilis ‘Giant Malay’

  4. Zingiber spectabilis ‘Glowing Orb’

Etlingera [Torch Ginger]

  1. Etlingera Elatior Pink

  2. Etlingera Elatior Red

Costus [Spiral Ginger]

  1. Costus Woodsonii

  2. Costus sp Orange [orange Woodsonii]

  3. Costus Speciosus Variegated

  4. Costus Speciosus

  5. Costus Lucanusianus

  6. Tapeinochilos ananassae /Costus ananassae

  7. Dimerocostus strobilaceus subsp. Strobilaceus

  8. Costus Green Mountain [hybrid]

  9. Costus Erythrophyllus

  10. Costus Pulverulentus 'Purple Passion'

  11. Costus 'Phoenix'

  12. Costus Lacerus Red Stem

  13. Costus Fissiligulatus. African Princess, Cameroon Pink Ginger

  14. Costus Pictus D.Don [Insulin plant]

  15. Costus Globosus

  16. Costus Stenophyllus - Bamboo Ginger

Crinums

  1. Yellow Crinum [Crinum Xanthophyllum]

  2. Red Crinum Menehune [Short and blackish]

  3. Crinum asiaticum Green, Redish and Variegated types

Dracaena

  1. Song of India [Dracaena Reflexa]

  2. Dracaena Red Scarlet

  3. Dracaena braunii 'Ceres' [likes shade]

  4. Dracaena Surculosa Milky Way [likes shade]

Ti Plant - Cordyline Fruiticosa

  1. Red Ti Plant

  2. Christmas Ti Plant

  3. Chocloate Ti Plant and Varigated Chocolate variety as well

  4. Tri-Colour Ti Plant

  5. Kiwi Ti Plant

  6. Volcanic Ti Plant

Fruit or Eatable

  1. Barringtonia Edulis

  2. Carissa Carandas

  3. Mango Trees

  4. Calamansi

  5. Papaya

  6. Turmeric Cucumba Longa

Banana Types

  1. Saba

  2. Blood Banana - Musa acuminata var Sumatrana

Had more, but Bananas take up too much space and become invasive

The rest of the plants

Some of these plants only exist only as individual specimens, some exist in large groups

Hibiscus - White & Red Variegated leaves - Small red flowers

Hibiscus -green leaves with large orange or red flowers

Hibiscus Acetosella

Iris - Belamcanda Chinensis [Blackberry Lilly / Iris domestica]

Iris - Trimezia Steyermarkii - Mexican Walking Plant

Suntan Plant - orange [Ixora coccinea]

Tradescantia spathacea - tri colour

Bougainvillea, different colours

Dianella ensifolia 'White Variegated'

Gardenia - variegated and non variegated

San Francisco plant [Crouton, various types]

Silver buttonwood. Conocarpus erectus var. sericeus

Hemigraphis alternata

Syngonium wendlandii Schott [arrow head ground cover]

Ravenia spectabilis (Variegated)

Wrightia antidysenterica with a local name of “White Angel”

Axonopus compressus (dwarf) aka Frog Grass

Plumeria or Frangi Pani Golden Yellow, Redand mixed, all are Scented

Agave Attenuata

Elephant ears [Alocasia] and Variegated Alocasia

Red pineapple [Ananas lucidus}

Bird Nest Fern - Asplemnium Nidus [dapo]

Golden Pandan [Pandaus Baptistii possibly]

Red Creeper [maybe Alternanthera Dentata?]

Strophanthus gratus. Fragrant flowers - small shrub

Arundina graminifolia, Bamboo orchid

Spathoglottis plicata [Ground Orchid]

Justicia Gendarussa 'variegata'

Xiphidium caeruleum [ground cover]

Golden Trumpet - Allamanda cathartica

Graptophyllum Pictum Roseum Variegatum

Strelitzia reginae [Bird of paradise]

Strelitzia Juncea

Acalypha wilkesiana - probably

Dieffenbachia Unknown and Prince Albert

Pseuderanthemum atropurpureum purple - probably,

Karagumoy plant

Oxalis triangularis

Golden Bamboo [bambusa vulgaris vittata]

Hippeastrum -with Orange Flowers

Scadoxus multiflorus - Surprise Plant,

Foxtail Fern [asparagus densiflorus myers]

I have grown many of the above from seed as that was the only way I could get them. Some take forever to get started and grow so slowly then perish, others hang on and flourish, then perish based on some unseen natural event, others do great and then for some reason perish. So the list above expands and contracts depending on my success or failure or what mother nature decides.